(ISC)² Blog

Honing your presentation skills for security awareness

Today on CISSPforum we've been chatting about Death by Powerpoint, the feeling that badly constructed and delivered presentations are not just tedious but counterproductive. Notable examples include eye-candy, wordy slides, cool but distracting infographics and "When we understand that slide, we'll have won the war". This stuff is particularly important in topics as complex and arcane as information security. I’m not sure why PowerPoint is always in the dock, other than the routine M$bashing. It’s just a tool, one of many. It seems to me the problem lies not so much with the tools as with the craftsmen and women... Read more →

(ISC)2’s CCFP Credential – The Standard of Excellence in Cyber Forensics

Our cyber world is so rife with threats and breaches that most information security professionals have realized that a compromise is fairly certain at some point. Rather than focus on this bleak reality, the important questions to ask are: After you’ve been breached, what steps will you take to mitigate the damage? And, what will you do to minimize or eliminate the effects of a breach next time around? In the field of cyber forensics in particular, these concepts are vital to preserving evidence for investigations and prosecutions of criminal cases in a court of law. Digital evidence is entrusted... Read more →